[Dario]

I just got the book ‘From After Effects to Flash’ and in it the author mentions an intermittent bug in AE7 related to your crash. He also says that Adobe is aware of it and will fix it in the next version of AE.

Finally, he says that you’re better of exporting a QT (in a codec that handles an alpha) and importing that into the Flash Video Encoder that came with Flash 8. Of course if you don’t have Flash 8 you’ll have a problem.

Good book.

[Dario]

Thanks Matt,
I’ve downloaded both demos and am able to get something out of AE with it. The Motion one gives me pause though. The only manual I could find was the AE one. While Motion overall is not that complicated, I tend to ‘think’ in either an AE or Shake mentality. So, I guess it’s the AE version.

[Dario]

Thanks Brian,
So it looks like I forgot that you need to have two nodes for the object.

[Dario]

Well, I think I’ve done every option but here’s the file in case anyone would care to take a look. I’ve no doubt it’s something I’m missing. BTW, I’m on v9.6.
I even did one from scratch, just trying to restrict the movement of a cube. No go.
Thanks

https://www.jmtype.com/ClampTroubles.c4d

[Dario]

Tried that but It doesn’t seem to work yet.

[Dario]

OK, but does that work with an S&T material since it’s really not a material?

[Dario]

Thanks.

[Dario]

Hmm, Layer Shaders? I’ll look them up in the manual now.
Would this allow me to use an S&T sketch material for one of the layers?

[Dario]

Thanks Mike.

[Dario]

You have at least two options (probably more):
1- Cinema 4d with Sketch & Toon
2- XSI

Psyop, the firm that did those Honda Odessey commercials, used XSI according to an aquaintance who worked there.

https://www.psyop.tv/main.php